How to call super in PHP?
parent::fooBar();
Straight from the manual:
The ... double colon, is a token that allows access to ... overridden properties or methods of a class.
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Example #3 Calling a parent's method
<?php class MyClass { protected function myFunc() { echo "MyClass::myFunc()\n"; } } class OtherClass extends MyClass { // Override parent's definition public function myFunc() { // But still call the parent function parent::myFunc(); echo "OtherClass::myFunc()\n"; } } $class = new OtherClass(); $class->myFunc(); ?>
Just a quick note because this doesn't come up as easy on Google searches, and this is well documented in php docs if you can find it. If you have a subclass that needs to call the superclass's constructor, you can call it with:
parent::__construct(); // since PHP5
An example would be if the super class has some arguments in it's constructor and it's implementing classes needs to call that:
class Foo {
public function __construct($lol, $cat) {
// Do stuff specific for Foo
}
}
class Bar extends Foo {
public function __construct()(
parent::__construct("lol", "cat");
// Do stuff specific for Bar
}
}
You can find a more motivating example here.